Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Contents -- Syllabus -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Introduction to Computers -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Characteristics of Computers -- 1.3 Development of computers -- 1.3.1 Some Early Computers -- 1.4 Generations of Computers -- 1.4.1 First Generation (1940-56): Vacuum Tubes -- 1.4.2 Second Generation (1956-63): Transistors -- 1.4.3 Third Generation (1964-Early 1970s): Integrated Circuits -- 1.4.4 Fourth Generation (Early 1970s-Till Date): Microprocessors -- 1.4.5 Fifth Generation (Present and Beyond): Artificial Intelligence -- 1.5 Classification of Computers -- 1.5.1 Classification According to Purpose -- 1.5.2 Classification According to Type of Data-Handled Techniques -- 1.5.3 Classification According to Functionality -- 1.6 The Computer System -- 1.6.1 Basic Components of a Computer System -- 1.7 Types of Input Devices -- 1.7.1 Keyboard -- 1.7.2 P ointing Devices -- 1.7.3 D igital Camera -- 1.7.4 Scanners -- 1.7.5 Optical Character Recognition (OCR) -- 1.7.6 Optical Mark Recognition (OMR ) -- 1.7.7 Magnetic Ink Character Reader (MICR) -- 1.7.8 Bar Code Reader -- 1.8 Types of Output Devices -- 1.8.1 Printers -- 1.8.2 Plotters -- 1.8.3 Computer Monitor -- 1.9 Types of memor y -- 1.9.1 Primary Memory -- 1.9.2 Secondary Memory -- 1.10 Applications of Computer -- Let us Summarise -- Exercises -- Answer -- Chapter 2: Number Systems and Computer Codes -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Number system -- 2.2.1 Types of Number Systems -- 2.2.2 Conversion Between Number Bases -- 2.3 Computer Arithmetic -- 2.3.1 Binary Arithmetic -- 2.3.2 Octal Arithmetic -- 2.3.3 Hexadecimal Arithmetic -- 2.4 Coding Schemes -- 2.4.1 BCD -- 2.4.2 ASCII -- 2.4.3 EBCDIC -- Let us Summarise -- Exercises -- Answer -- Chapter 3: Microsoft Office Excel 2003 -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Starting Microsoft Office Excel 2003 -- 3.2.1 Microsoft Excel Environment…”

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“…The kinematics section was improved to extend beyond a pure knowledge explanation to a comprehensive guideline on how to actually do and implement haptic kinematic functions. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Romanian PhD students at CERN: the Bologna Process and Beyond. Alexandru Nicolin, Florin Buzatu -- Part VII Quality Assurance -- 7. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…More Payloads -- Ransomware as a Service -- Typical Ransomware Process and Components -- Infiltrate -- After Initial Execution -- Dial-Home -- Auto-Update -- Check for Location -- Initial Automatic Payloads -- Waiting -- Hacker Checks C&amp -- C -- More Tools Used -- Reconnaissance -- Readying Encryption -- Data Exfiltration -- Encryption -- Extortion Demand -- Negotiations -- Provide Decryption Keys -- Ransomware Goes Conglomerate -- Ransomware Industry Components -- Summary -- Chapter 2 Preventing Ransomware -- Nineteen Minutes to Takeover -- Good General Computer Defense Strategy -- Understanding How Ransomware Attacks -- The Nine Exploit Methods All Hackers and Malware Use -- Top Root-Cause Exploit Methods of All Hackers and Malware -- Top Root-Cause Exploit Methods of Ransomware -- Preventing Ransomware -- Primary Defenses -- Everything Else -- Use Application Control -- Antivirus Prevention -- Secure Configurations -- Privileged Account Management -- Security Boundary Segmentation -- Data Protection -- Block USB Keys -- Implement a Foreign Russian Language -- Beyond Self-Defense -- Geopolitical Solutions -- International Cooperation and Law Enforcement -- Coordinated Technical Defense -- Disrupt Money Supply…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- PART I: Classic Approaches -- Chapter 1: Experimental Research Methods in Consumer Psychology -- Types of Variables -- Types of Validity -- Common Mistakes -- References -- Chapter 2: Surveys, Experiments, and the Psychology of Self-Report -- Surveys and Experiments -- Answering Questions: Participants' tasks -- Reporting on Behaviors and Experiences -- Reporting on Attitudes and Preferences -- Coda -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 3: Beyond the Lab: Using Data from the Field to Increase Research Validity -- How Can Researchers Provide the Most Robust Research Findings? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Exploring different types of analytics -- Descriptive analytics -- Diagnostic analytics -- Predictive analytics -- Prescriptive analytics -- Walking through the maze of tools and techniques -- Beyond simple pivot tables -- Why Python? -- Modern challenges in the world of privacy-centric marketing -- The importance of data engineering and tracking -- Don't moonlight as a data engineer -- Web tracking is hard, and it is becoming harder -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 2: Extracting and Exploring Data with Singer and pandas -- Technical requirements -- What is ETL, and why should you care? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Three - Experiments: developing the basis for going beyond ITER -- 11 - National Spherical Torus eXperiment -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Transport and turbulence -- 11.3 Macroscopic stability -- 11.4 Energetic particles -- 11.5 Boundary physics -- 11.6 Solenoid-free operation and wave physics -- 11.7 NSTX-Upgrade -- References -- 12 - The mega amp spherical tokamak -- 12.1 The MAST device -- 12.2 Key scientific achievements of 15years of MAST research -- 12.2.1 Plasma confinement -- 12.2.1.1 Access to high confinement (H-mode) -- 12.2.1.2 Energy confinement -- 12.2.1.3 Particle confinement and fuelling -- 12.2.1.4 Momentum transport -- 12.2.2 Pedestal and ELM physics -- 12.2.2.1 The ELM crash -- 12.2.2.2 Pedestal evolution -- 12.2.2.3 ELM control -- 12.2.3 Fast-ion physics and current drive -- 12.2.3.1 Alfvén instabilities -- 12.2.3.2 Effect of MHD modes on fast ions -- 12.2.3.3 Neutral beam current drive -- 12.2.4 Scrape-off layer and exhaust physics -- 12.2.4.1 Target heat loads -- 12.2.4.2 SOL transport -- 12.2.5 Macroscopic stability -- 12.2.5.1 The internal n=1 kink mode -- 12.2.5.2 Sawtooth physics -- 12.2.5.3 NTM physics -- 12.2.5.4 Disruptions -- 12.2.6 Plasma start-up -- 12.2.6.1 Merging compression start-up -- 12.2.6.2 ECRH/EBW start-up and heating -- 12.3 The upgrade to MAST -- 12.3.1 A staged approach toward a future ST -- 12.3.2 MAST-U as divertor test facility -- 12.3.3 Toward a fully noninductive flat top -- 12.3.3.1 The neutral beam current drive system -- 12.3.3.2 The EBW current drive potential -- References -- 13 - Experimental advanced superconducting tokamak -- 13.1 EAST mission and orientation -- 13.1.1 Overview -- 13.1.2 EAST mission and orientation -- 13.2 Main progress and achievements on the EAST tokamak -- 13.2.1 Development of high-performance long-pulse operation -- 13.2.2 Main progresses in RF physics…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction to Next Generation Networks 5G and Beyond -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.1.1 Benefits of 5G Networks -- 1.2 5G Evolution -- 1.2.1 1G-Analog Cellular Networks -- 1.2.2 2G - Digital Mobile Networks -- 1.2.3 3G-High-Speed Data Networks -- 1.2.4 4G Expansion of Mobile Broadband -- 1.2.5 5G-Design Innovation -- 1.3 5G - Exclusiveness -- 1.4 Challenges of Networks -- 1.5 What Will 5G Accomplish? …”

“…Today, it’s more important than ever to have an emotional understanding of customers and how they feel about a product, service, or business, even when your primary interactions are via digital channels. Affected goes beyond influencing behaviors to understanding cognition and emotion as a way to better connect with customers in the digital space. …”

“…This theme is explored from six angles in the present volume: 1) the relationship between historiography and rhetoric; 2) the transmission of classical rhetorical culture to areas beyond the Roman Empire 3) the circulation of information, traditions and documents in the whole area of the Roman Empire and frontier areas; 4) the role played by intellectual groups (clerical and lay) in this process 5) the social, cultural, and religious variety of audiences; 6) the impact of difference in genre on the engagement with forms of knowledge…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Product Innovation -- Keep It Simple -- Tackle Behavioral Biases -- Incorporate Technology -- Keep Testing -- Bridging the Gap between Informal and Formal Mechanisms -- Getting an Early Start -- Redefining Financial Inclusion -- Notes -- 10 Firm Productivity as an Engine of Saving -- From Japan to the World: The Empirical Link between TFP and Savings -- Incentives to Save -- Quantifying the Link from Productivity to Saving -- The Fine Print -- Zooming in on Firms' Saving Decisions -- Firm Saving: A Way Out for Productive Firms -- A Productive Approach to Policy -- Notes -- 11 Breaking the Vicious Circle: Financial Policies for High-Quality Saving -- Toward a Well-Oiled Financial Machine -- Broadening the Base -- Reducing Service Costs -- Keeping it Simple -- Fostering a Culture of Saving -- Banking-The Old Fashioned Way -- More than Brick-and-Mortar Banking -- Dialing up Technology -- Financial Saving beyond Banking -- Creating a Virtuous Circle -- Notes -- References -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Foolish Assumptions -- Icons Used in This Book -- Beyond the Book -- Where to Go from Here -- Part 1 Getting Started with Go -- Chapter 1 Hello, Go! …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Staff and Budget -- Responsibility for Things Beyond Your Control -- Managing Expectations -- Chapter 10 When to Get CEO Involvement -- What Friends Do -- Setting CEO Expectations -- When to Involve the CEO -- Connecting CEO and Leadership Commitment to Diversity -- How to Get CEO Commitment -- Chapter 11 Employee Resource Groups -- Check Your Bias -- Employee Resource Groups -- Define ERG Membership -- Setting Boundaries for ERGs -- Establish Communication Guidelines -- Managing ERG Fundraisers -- Let ERGs Fail -- The How: Suggested Rules and Structures for ERGs -- Chapter 12 DE&amp -- I Committees -- Focus on the Right Things -- Why DE&amp -- I Committees Fail -- What Happens When Companies Start with a DE&amp -- I Committee -- Three Simple Rules for a Better DE&amp -- I Committee -- Chapter 13 Using DE&amp -- I Training to Make Organizational Change -- Trees Just Don't Happen -- Diversity Training: Episode versus Series -- DE&amp -- I Training as a Response to an Episode -- DE&amp -- I Training as a Series of Ongoing Trainings -- CAPE and DE&amp -- I Trainings -- The Two Types of DE&amp -- I Trainings -- Unconscious Bias -- The ADKAR Model -- Note -- Chapter 14 Inclusion Practices -- Don't Ask Me to Organize the Davids -- How to Measure Inclusion -- How the CAPE Inclusion Tracker Works -- The Fair Pay Solution -- Notes -- Chapter 15 Your Mental Health -- A Day at the Pool -- Mental Health for You and Your Colleagues…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…First Signs: Global Nervousness -- Travel -- Working from Home -- Learning, Social and Marketing Events -- Navigating the Lockdown and Dealing with Reality -- Business Impact and Helping Our Customers -- Engaging with Empathy -- Compassion at Work -- Assimilation of Knowledge -- Inorganic Growth - Acquisition -- Future Outlook: Beyond 2020 and COVID-19 -- Revamping Solution Offerings and Focusing on Customer Success -- People -- Learnings: Preparedness for the Future -- Building on Business Resiliency -- Supporting Customers -- Reinvigorating People -- To a New Chapter. . . -- About the Contributors -- SOS Children'sVillages -- About SOS Children's Villages -- First Signs -- Navigating the Great Lockdown -- Learnings from the Great Lockdown -- Future Outlook -- Income for the Sector During Lockdown -- About the Contributor -- Tapsi -- About Tapsi -- The Calm Before the Storm: Industry and Company Overview Before COVID-19 -- Fear, Shock, Depression -- Our Strategies to Overcome the Crisis: Being Creative and Agile While Transforming the Threats into Opportunities -- Cash Flow Management -- Human Resources -- Making Our Product Suitable for the Pandemic -- Communication and Marketing Fields -- Learnings and Takeaways -- Team Integrity Is the Ultimate Asset! …”

“…The report highlights key tourism policy developments, focuses on issues that rank high on the policy agenda in the field of tourism and provides a broad overview and interpretation of tourism trends in the OECD area and beyond. The 2014 edition focuses on tourism and growth, and covers 48 countries. …”

“…Web Forms-the Page and Control Framework at the heart of ASP.NET-makes it easier to develop dynamic Web applications. But you can go beyond the controls that ship with ASP.NET-and power up your Web sites and applications-by creating your own server controls. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 8: More about Operators -- The road so far -- The fundamentals of RxJS -- The map() operator versus the flatMap() operator -- Challenge - Creating a function to filter elements using only the flatMap() operator -- Filtering data -- Aggregating data -- Going beyond the basics -- Dealing with backpressure -- Combining observables -- Other important operators -- The flatMapLatest() operator -- The flatMapFirst() operator -- The finally() operator -- The groupBy() operator -- The do() operator -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Composition -- What is a transducer? …”

“…No other book on using Kubernetes - beyond simple introduction - is available in the market. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Copyright -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Customer Feedback -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: A Gentle Introduction to Machine Learning -- Introduction - classic and adaptive machines -- Only learning matters -- Supervised learning -- Unsupervised learning -- Reinforcement learning -- Beyond machine learning - deep learning and bio-inspired adaptive systems -- Machine learning and big data -- Further reading -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Important Elements in Machine Learning -- Data formats -- Multiclass strategies -- One-vs-all -- One-vs-one -- Learnability -- Underfitting and overfitting -- Error measures -- PAC learning -- Statistical learning approaches -- MAP learning -- Maximum-likelihood learning -- Elements of information theory -- References -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Feature Selection and Feature Engineering -- scikit-learn toy datasets -- Creating training and test sets -- Managing categorical data -- Managing missing features -- Data scaling and normalization -- Feature selection and filtering -- Principal component analysis -- Non-negative matrix factorization -- Sparse PCA -- Kernel PCA -- Atom extraction and dictionary learning -- References -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Linear Regression -- Linear models -- A bidimensional example -- Linear regression with scikit-learn and higher dimensionality -- Regressor analytic expression -- Ridge, Lasso, and ElasticNet -- Robust regression with random sample consensus -- Polynomial regression -- Isotonic regression -- References -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Logistic Regression -- Linear classification -- Logistic regression -- Implementation and optimizations -- Stochastic gradient descent algorithms -- Finding the optimal hyperparameters through grid search -- Classification metrics -- ROC curve -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Naive Bayes…”